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First published in 1977 a novel about identical twins who do not know of each other's existence and whose lives could not have been more different, and how they eventually meet by chance.

'Destined to provide many hours of pleasurable reading' Woman & HomeWhat will happen when the party's over?The autumn leaves are beginning to fall just as Alexa arrives back in Scotland for the first time in years, looking forward to seeing her family at her grandmother's birthday party. But then Pandora turns up. Pandora, the wild child who ran away many years ago. The one who might have had an affair with Alexa's father . . .As secrets come out and old wounds are laid bare, the family must come together in love and forgiveness - or risk being torn apart forever.READERS ADORE SEPTEMBER:'The writing is so lyrical. Pilcher made me remember being a kid again' Reader review ?????'Pilcher's descriptions of Scotland are beautiful. You can feel the chill in the September air as Autumn begins to settle over the countryside' Reader review ?????'Such a beautiful book - lyrical descriptions, evocative writing, wonderful characters. I hated for it to end!' Reader review ?????'I love reading Rosamunde Pilcher books, the story lines are so absorbing and peppered with wonderful characters' Reader review ?????'The characters are so compelling, the landscape so beguiling, the descriptive writing so beautifully done . . . I don't think I'll ever tire of it!' Reader review ?????PRAISE FOR ROSAMUNDE PILCHER:'Pilcher's storytelling skills are serene and beguiling' The Times'It is never too soon to discover Rosamunde Pilcher' Good Housekeeping'Whether she is being poignant, wry or perceptive, Rosamunde Pilcher is always gentle' Woman's Realm

'Took me to the sun-kissed beaches and wildness of Cornwall. A beautiful story of love lost, interwoven with family dramas and lasting friendships. I have lived the book with each page turned and was sorry to say goodbye to all of the characters at the end' Reader review ????? Rosamunde Pilcher's phenomenal and heart-warming bestseller exploring the nuances of family dramaArtist's daughter Penelope Keeling can look back on a full and varied life: a Bohemian childhood in London and Cornwall, an unhappy wartime marriage, and the one man she truly loved. She has brought up three children - and learned to accept them as they are.Yet she is far too energetic and independent to settle sweetly into pensioned-off old-age. And when she discovers that her most treasured possession, her father's painting, The Shell Seekers, is now worth a small fortune, it is Penelope who must make the decisions that will determine whether her family can continue to survive as a family, or be split apart.READERS ADORE THE SHELL SEEKERS:'A beautifully crafted story of the intricacies of family lives stretched over time. The characters and settings are so well described it's as if the details were plucked from my imagination' Reader review ?????'One of my favourite novels. It is a book I turn to again and again, whenever I am dejected or in need of comfort, and in doing so, restore some of my equilibrium' Reader review ?????'Excellent book . . . Rosamunde Pilcher never fails' Reader review ?????'I have read this book so many times and each time I read it I'm transported into the story as if it was the first time I had read it' Reader review ?????'The book grabs your attention on page one and keeps it until the last page. Not only is this an enjoyable read, it's also a compelling read. I really struggled to put this book down' Reader review ?????PRAISE FOR ROSAMUNDE PILCHER:'A beautiful, haunting story . . . that will tug at your heart strings' Prima'A huge warm saga . . . A deeply satisfying story written with love and confidence' Maeve Binchy in The New York Times Book Review'A long, beguiling saga, typically English . . . Splendid' Mail on Sunday

'As ever, Rosamunde Pilcher has kept me enthralled to the very last page' Reader review ?????The endearing bestseller from the much-loved Rosamunde PilcherBorn in Colombo, Judith Dunbar spends her teenage years at boarding school, while her beloved mother and younger sister live abroad with her father. When her new friend Loveday Carey-Lewis invites Judith home for the weekend to Nancherrow, the Carey-Lewises' beautiful estate on the Cornish coast, it is love at first sight. With the family's generosity and kindness, Judith flourishes from a naïve girl into a confident young woman, basking in the warm affection of a surrogate family. But the gathering storm of war cannot be ignored. Judith herself has far to travel before at last . . . coming home.READERS ARE IN LOVE WITH COMING HOME:'In her typical writing style, the book has you engrossed in the characters' lives and it is both uplifting and tear-jerking in places. A great read' Reader review ?????'This book is beautifully written. The language is captivating and holds you on from page to page' Reader review ?????'Was engrossed in this book from page 1. Drawn into the lives of Judith, her family and of course the Carey-Lewises. Was sorry to finish this book but on the other hand couldn't stop reading it!' Reader review ?????PRAISE FOR ROSAMUNDE PILCHER:'The novel has a gently sweet flavour, it continues to beguile because of Pilcher's warmth, sincerity and easy, undemanding prose' Sunday Times'Compelling pages packed with convincing characters, vivid settings and weepy bits' Daily Mail'Classy, lavish entertainment . . . literate pleasure' Publishers Weekly'Captivating . . . The best sort of book to come home to . . .' New York Daily News

'This book is the literary equivalent of a warm, soft blanket, a log fire and a cup of strong, sweet tea on a snowy winter night. With the Scotland setting, it is utterly irresistible' Reader review ?????An endearing and poignant novel about loss and the healing power of love by the beloved Rosamunde PilcherElfrida Phipps loves her new life in her pretty Hampshire village. She has a tiny cottage, her faithful dog Horace and the friendship of the neighbouring Blundells - particularly Oscar - to ensure that her days are filled with companionship as well as independence. But an unforeseen tragedy upsets Elfrida's tranquillity: Oscar's wife and daughter are killed in a terrible car crash, and he finds himself homeless when his stepchildren claim their dead mother's inheritance.Oscar and Elfrida take refuge in a rambling house in Scotland, which becomes a magnet for various waifs and strays who converge upon it, including an unhappy teenage girl. It could be a recipe for disaster. But somehow the Christmas season weaves its magic and the winter solstice brings love and solace.READERS ADORE WINTER SOLSTICE:'The author's finely drawn characters are charming and her settings beguiling' Reader review ?????'A sweet love story in a gorgeous and evocative winter setting' Reader review ?????'I love her books because the characters jump off the page and straight into my heart. I love her books because she creates such a vivid sense of place that I can close my eyes and see it' Reader review ?????'A truly beautifully heart-warming story of love and loss . . .' Reader review ?????PRAISE FOR ROSAMUNDE PILCHER:'Enchanting . . . bound to delight her many thousands of fans' Daily Express'Rosamunde Pilcher's warm spell is charming and utterly convincing' Daily Mail'A beautiful, haunting story . . . that will tug at your heartstrings' Prima

Presents the story of Penelope Keeling and her family and the passion and heartbreak that have held them together for three generations. It is a story of love, courage and determination, and a painting which threatens to tear the Keeling family apart.

Celebrate life's journeys with the beloved author whose stories of life and love have touched the world. With her evocative bestsellers The Shell Seekers and Coming Home, Rosamunde Pilcher opened your heart to the extraordinary powers of love, heartbreak, and joy. Now, in The Blue Bedroom and Other Stories, she invites you to share the full spectrum of life's moods and emotions through her very first collection of short stories. From a child's first knowledge of death, through city and country, to an elderly woman's newfound freedom, The Blue Bedroom is a welcoming experience full of the honesty and warmth unique to Rosamunde Pilcher.

When you read a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher you enter a special world where emotions sing from the heart. A world that lovingly captures the ties that bind us to one another-the joys and sorrows, heartbreaks and misunderstandings, and glad, perfect moments when we are in true harmony. A world filled with evocative, engrossing, and above all, enjoyable portraits of people's lives and loves, tenderly laid open for us... Oliver Dobbs was a writer first, and a man second. To him other people were tools. Even though he had broken Victoria Bradshaw's heart once, when he arrived on her doorstep with a two-year-old son, she found she could not refuse him, and the three of them set out for a castle in Scotland. There, Victoria meets the new laird and finds her crushed spirit awakening.

Rosamunde Pilcher's The Shell Seekers is "a huge warm saga...A deeply satisfying story written with love and confidence" (Maeve Binchy in The New York Times Book Review).The Shell Seekers was adapted twice to film (1989 and 2006).An instant bestseller when it was first published, The Shell Seekers is an enduring classic which has touched the hearts of millions of readers worldwide. A novel of connection, it is the story of one family--mothers and daughters, husbands and lovers--and of the passions and heartbreak that have held them together for three generations. This magical novel--the kind of reading experience that comes along only once in a long while--is the perfect read, whether you are returning to it again, or opening the cover for the first time. At the end of a long and useful life, Penelope Keeling's prized possession is The Shell Seekers, painted by her father, and symbolizing her unconventional life, from bohemian childhood to wartime romance. When her grown children learn their grandfather's work is now worth a fortune, each has an idea as to what Penelope should do. But as she recalls the passions, tragedies, and secrets of her life, she knows there is only one answer...and it lies in her heart.

From the author of the classic multimillion bestseller The Shell Seeker, comes Rosamunde Pilcher's September, a story of homecomings and heartbreaks, friendships, betrayals, forgiveness, and love. The basis for the TV mini-series of the same name, now available on streaming platforms. A place you will never forgetRosamunde Pilcher's Scotland...where the fields flourish with greenery, the bills bloom with purple, and the lochs glitter with the bright blue of the sky. A time you will never forgetSeptember...when the heather is in full flower, the first chill of autumn cools the air, and the countryside stirs with the hunt, balls, dinner parties, and dance. A novel you will never forgetA main selection of the Literary Guild and the Doubleday Book Club

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Rosamunde Pilcher, Winter Solstice (the basis for the TV movie) is the story of five unforgettable characters, lonely and haunted strangers who find love and loyalty as a reborn family of friends during the Christmas holidays. Elfrida Phipps, once of London's stage, moved to the English village of Dibton in hopes of making a new life for herself. Gradually she settled into the comfortable familiarity of village life--shopkeepers knowing her tastes, neighbors calling her by name--still she finds herself lonely. Oscar Blundell gave up his life as a musician in order to marry Gloria. They have a beautiful daughter, Francesca, and it is only because of their little girl that Oscar views his sacrificed career as worthwhile. Carrie returns from Austria at the end of an ill-fated affair with a married man to find her mother and sister sharing a home and squabbling endlessly. With Christmas approaching, Carrie agrees to look after her sister's awkward and quiet teenage daughter, Lucy, so that her mother might enjoy a romantic fling in America. Sam Howard is trying to pull his life back together after his wife has left him for another. He is without home and without roots, all he has is his job. Business takes him to northern Scotland, where he falls in love with the lush, craggy landscape and set his sights on a house. It is the strange rippling effects of a tragedy that will bring these five characters together in a large, neglected estate house near the Scottish fishing town of Creagan.

In #1 New York Times bestselling author Rosamunde Pilcher's Another View--now a major motion picture--a woman's estrangement from her family affects her love life. There were only two men in Emma's life--her father, a remote artist in Cornwall who left her in boarding school and saw her every few years, and Christo, who had been her stepbrother for a few months, and now wanted to get to know her. But until Emma can understand what she means to them, there will never be room for love.

Teeming with marvelous, memorable characters in a novel that is a true masterpiece, Rosamunde Pilcher's Coming Home--the basis for the TV miniseries of the same name--is a book to be savored, reread, and cherished forever. Against the backdrop of an elegant Cornwall mansion before World War II and a vast continent-spanning canvas during the turbulent war years, this involving story tells of an extraordinary young woman's coming of age, coming to grips with love and sadness, and in every sense of the term, coming home... In 1935, Judith Dunbar is left behind at a British boarding school when her mother and baby sister go off to join her father in Singapore. At Saint Ursula's, her friendship with Loveday Carey-Lewis sweeps her into the privileged, madcap world of the British aristocracy, teaching her about values, friendship, and wealth. But it will be the drama of war, as it wrenches Judith from those she cares about most, that will teach her about courage...and about love.

Two of Rosamunde Pilcher's most heartfelt novels reveal the sanctity of second chances and the irresistible pull of the past. The Empty HouseAt twenty-seven, Virginia has been through more than most people experience in a lifetime. When she and her two children travel to a seaside cottage for a much-needed break, she never expects to rediscover a true love from her past. Is this the second chance Virginia needs to finally find happiness? The Day of the StormWhen Rebecca learns she has relatives she never knew existed, her first reaction is shock. But as she sets out to meet her new grandfather and cousin, Rebecca is even less prepared for the enigmatic Joss Gardner, the outsider who seems to be the apple of her grandfather's eye. Soon, Rebecca begins to uncover the dark currents that belie her family's loving reception, and it's only with Joss's help that she can truly understand them.

Celebrate life's journeys with the beloved author whose stories of life and love have touched the world. Return to the sun-drenched settings of The Shell Seekers and the rich emotion of Coming Home, as Rosamunde Pilcher takes you on an unforgettable journey of the heart. It is the passage of a young woman from a relationship that has become too tame and predictable to the excitement of a new life brimming with possibilities and the thrilling promise of love. And along the way, all the hopes, secrets, and desires that enrich us unite a joyous carousel of life that only Rosamunde Pilcher can create.

Celebrate life's journeys with the beloved author whose stories of life and love touched the world. A Place Like Home is a spellbinding collection of short stories by internationally bestselling author Rosamunde Pilcher, never before published in book form. The collection contains fifteen stories, which range from "Our Holiday", in which a wife surprises her husband of twenty-five years with a holiday full of Mediterranean sunshine, red rocks and blue seas in an effort to rekindle the romance they had before children; "Through the Eyes of Love", which takes the reader to a village by the sea where old flames meet again; and "A Place Like Home", where a lonely young woman goes to recuperate in the Scottish countryside after a brief illness. The fruit orchards and fresh sea air offer much needed respite--but not as much as the handsome, mysterious farmer she meets. Each unforgettable story is the perfect slice of romance written with warmth and passion featuring wonderfully memorable, smart, and feisty female characters that will transport the reader to another time and place.

When you read a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher you enter a special world where emotions sing from the heart. A world that lovingly captures the ties that bind us to one another-the joys and sorrows, heartbreaks and misunderstandings, and glad, perfect moments when we are in true harmony. A world filled with evocative, engrossing, and above all, enjoyable portraits of people's lives and loves, tenderly laid open for us... On the last day of her mother's life, Rebecca learns she has a family in Cornwall, and sets out to find the grandfather and cousin she has never known. But only the enigmatic Joss Gardner, the outsider who seems to be the apple of her grandfather's eye, can help her understand the dark currents that lie behind her family's loving reception.

Rosamunde Pilcher's The Shell Seekers is "a huge warm saga...A deeply satisfying story written with love and confidence" (Maeve Binchy in The New York Times Book Review).The Shell Seekers was adapted twice to film (1989 and 2006).An instant bestseller when it was first published, The Shell Seekers is an enduring classic which has touched the hearts of millions of readers worldwide. A novel of connection, it is the story of one family--mothers and daughters, husbands and lovers--and of the passions and heartbreak that have held them together for three generations. This magical novel--the kind of reading experience that comes along only once in a long while--is the perfect read, whether you are returning to it again, or opening the cover for the first time. At the end of a long and useful life, Penelope Keeling's prized possession is The Shell Seekers, painted by her father, and symbolizing her unconventional life, from bohemian childhood to wartime romance. When her grown children learn their grandfather's work is now worth a fortune, each has an idea as to what Penelope should do. But as she recalls the passions, tragedies, and secrets of her life, she knows there is only one answer...and it lies in her heart.